Klamath water hearing was just a witch hunt

Klamath Herald and News Letter to the Editor

August 17, 2007

On the “crisis of confidence” hearings:

The Constitution provides that when the federal government (Fish and Wildlife and Department of Commerce in this case) uses its heavy hand against its citizens (Klamath Basin farmers, ranchers, and local residence), they can ask that their representatives (Reps. Greg Walden and Wally Herger, Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden, and Bush administration officials, including Vice President Cheney and others) to ask questions on their behalf.

I would hope everyone will agree on this constitutional right.

In this case, this outreach to our representatives and their response, led to the National Academy of Sciences report that totally vindicated the unjust withholding of life giving irrigation water stored for the Klamath community and agriculture.

This hearing is clearly a witch hunt designed to derail the positive things going on at the local level in the greater Klamath Basin and should be exposed as a despicable Democratic partisan tactic.

Chris Moudry

Merrill

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